Take the Tissue Challenge! Tissues are very convenient, but also very detrimental to our environment. Unless your tissue box says something like “no bleaching†or “100% recycled paperâ€, the material that you put on your nose’s delicate skin has been bleached and is made from wood pulp from virgin forests.
A locavore is a new, friendly species that strives to eat (hence the suffix –vore, as in herbivore or carnivore) only (or mostly) locally-grown food. Not always easy since, depending on where you live and on the season, you may only have squash and other members of the Cucurbitaceae family to eat for a few months...
Most of us know Sting’s (well, Police’s) song Message in a bottle. Some of us have already heard Sting’s Rainforest SOS on YouTube or other sites, sent out today, September 30, 2009. If you haven’t, it’s simple: according to Prince Charles, the founder of the Rainforest Project, “if we lose the battle against tropical deforestation, we lose the battle against climate change.â€
That is because rainforests “absorb nearly a fifth of all our carbon emissions and yet they are being destroyed at the rate of a football pitch every four seconds.â€
JustLiveGreener.com encourages you to do more than just hum Sting’s song in your car or at the office, and to show your support for emergency action for the rainforests by signing up and adding your name to the list. In itself, your name will be the message.
Some very famous people have already responded to this SOS: Harrison Ford, Robin William, Richard Branson, Rod Stewart and Olivia Newton-John, among others. With the international climate talks in Copenhagen coming in December, which aim at drafting a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol, your name, that of other concerned citizens of the earth, will demonstrate the level of public support for action and protection of crucial rainforests.
